Las Dalias - Acoustic Ibiza

"Acoustic Ibiza" allows itself to swerve away from the ever more decrepit pitfall of electronic swill that has progressively inundated the island since the rise of Clubbing some 20 years back.... Strange to find that "modern" is really "back to the Roots" and viceversa... A full circle has taken us back to the days of musicianship once more...

"Acoustic Ibiza" is the first Ibizan album to hide the mouse and mousepad in the backroom and allow instrumentalists to sit in the parlour with the Sunday crockery... The artists involved are real and visible, they all belong to the musical family of Las Dalias. They play live and are bigger than life more often than not... Yep! These are songs folks, not just tracks....

Often the textures of the songs are rough as the rocks at Aguas Blancas, sometimes as colourful as the red earth here in the "hood" in San Carlos, sometimes as poignant as a violet daybreak over the bay of San Vicente... appropriately so, Ibiza is this and much more. Those of us that camp on beyond the last Easyjet of October, have felt the gentle breeze of autumn running chill down our backs as the sun disappears over Benirras.

The packaging is interesting - it's done as an oversized "book of matches"

1. 1 - Cathy Battistessa - Breathe It In
2. 2 - Denis Stern - Estrella del Sur
3. 3 - Lee harris - Oh Good Desire
4. 4 - Paco Fernandez - Mani
5. 5 - Juanma Redondo - Cualguiera
6. 6 - Jon Michell - Be My Lover
7. 7 - Stevie Fernandez - Cocktail Melodies
8. 8 - Nervous - Waters May
9. 9 - Free Peoples - Days To Remember
10. 10 - Javier Vargas - Too Many Lies
11. 11 - Ibiphonic - So Low
12. 12 - Manolo Diaz - Talamanca
13. 13 - Paco Fernandez - Donde Estan Mis Gafas